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 Texts and Studies (1935-6927): Text and Studies is a series of monographs devoted to the study of Biblical and Patristic texts. Maintaining the highest scholarly standards, the series includes critical editions, studies of primary sources, and analyses of textual traditions.
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| 978-1-59333-853-4 | Studies in the Peshitta of Kings
By Donald M. Walter
This monograph examines the manuscript variants of the Peshitta (the standard Syriac translation) of Kings, with special attention to the manuscript 9a1. Manuscript 9a1 is of critical importance for the textual history of Kings, and Walter argues that there is overwhelming evidence that the non-9a1 Mss attest to an extensive revision. This monograph also discusses translation features of the Peshitta of Kings with special attention paid to harmonization and the leveling and dissimulation of vocabulary. Walter also treats the vorlage for the translation and treats its relation to the LXX and the Targumim. More... | $128.75 | Add to Cart |  | 
| 978-1-59333-789-6 | Textual Variation: Theological and Social Tendencies?
Edited by H. A. G. Houghton & D. C. Parker
Did scribes intentionally change the text of the New Testament? This book argues they did not and disputes the claims that variant readings are theologically motivated. Using evidence gathered from some of the earliest surviving biblical manuscripts these essays reconstruct the copying habits of scribes and explore the contexts in which they worked. Alongside these are studies of selected early Christian writings, which illustrate attitudes to and examples of textual change. More... | $131.25 | Add to Cart | | 
| 978-1-59333-422-2 | Scribal Habits of Codex Sinaiticus
By Dirk Jongkind
Codex Sinaiticus is one of the oldest, famous, and most important manuscript of the Bible. At least three scribes copied the text manually, and they were faced with many decisions: What do I do when I spot an error in the text I just copied? What is the right spelling of this word? Is it time for a new paragraph? This book studies a variety of textual and non-textual phenomena in Codex Sinaiticus. We discover more about this important biblical manuscript as well as the individuals with their own habits, qualities, and skill levels who produced it. More... | $127.50 | Add to Cart | | 
| 978-1-59333-098-9 | Collected Papers in Greek and Georgian Textual Criticism
By Neville Birdsall
This volume collects together for the first time the most influential papers of the late scholar of Georgian and New Testament textual critic, J. Neville Birdsall. Professor Birdsall wrote on Greek witnesses to the New Testament text, the Georgian version of the New Testament, palaeography, patristics, and the theory of textual criticism. The collection fully demonstrates the author’s standing as one of the most learned and wide-ranging New Testament textual scholars of modern times. More... | $138.75 | Add to Cart | | 
| 1-59333-367-6 | Transmission and Reception: New Testament Text-Critical and Exegetical Studies
Edited by Jeff W. Childers & D. C. Parker
The sixteen studies in this volume explore a variety of topics pertaining to the transmission and reception of the New Testament text. Including articles by Barbara Aland, D. C. Parker, Eldon Epp, Gordon Fee, Everett Ferguson, and others, the results of these studies have important implications for the interpretation of the New Testament and for understanding the formative impact of the text on Early Christianity. Indispensable for those interested in textual criticism, this compilation will be a welcome resource for New Testament scholars, and those interested in Early Christianity. More... | $99.00 | Add to Cart | | 
| 1-59333-320-X | Saint Ephraim's Quotations From The Gospel
By F. C. Burkitt
This book attempts to determine the Gospel text used by Ephraim, and to investigate the bearing of his quotations upon the date of the Peshitta. Ephraim, commonly known as Ephraem Syrus, is one of the figures from the Syriac-speaking Church whose name is well known in both East and West. His surviving works are by themselves as voluminous as all other remains of Syriac literature earlier than 400 AD. Ephraim’s death in roughly 373 AD means that his Gospel text predates the 5th century and attests a text older than many of the extant manuscripts. More... | $95.00 | Add to Cart | | 
| 1-59333-096-0 | Early Syriac Translation Technique & the textual criticism of the Greek Gospels
By Peter John Williams
Although scholars have often made inferences about the Greek texts that lay behind the Old Syriac and Peshitta versions of the Gospels, very few have ever attempted to formulate systematic rules. In this volume, Peter Williams investigates a wide range of textual phenomena and formulates clear and simple rules for the use of Syriac texts as witnesses to the underlying Greek. It becomes possible to uncover errors that have accumulated during the evolution of the Greek New Testament textual apparatus. Williams argues these errors generally stem from the unjustified use of Syriac witnesses. More... | $49.00 | Add to Cart | | 
| 1-59333-279-3 | The Fragments of Heracleon
By A. E. Brooke
Only fragments survive of the writings of the Gnostic teacher Heracleon (fl. 145-180 AD; a disciple of Valentinus). What remains can be found primarily in quotations in Origen's commentary on the Gospel of John. This study gives an edition of the surviving texts with extensive notes, biblical references, and indices. This volume is indispensable for the study of second century Gnosticism. More... | $38.00 | Add to Cart | | 
| 1-59333-278-5 | The Apology of Aristides on behalf of the Christians
By J. Rendel Harris
The Apology of Aristides is the earliest Christian apologia to have survived in its entirety. It was written as a defense of the new Christian way of life against its many rivals and opponents, and details some of its leading ethical precepts. Long thought to have been lost, this early second-century work was rediscovered in a Syriac translation in 1889 in a seventh-century manuscript preserved in the monastery of St. Catherine on Mount Sinai. This volume contains not only the standard edition of the Syriac text with critical notes, but also the first English translation and a study of surviving fragments in Greek, which were subsequently identified in the 'Life of Barlaam and Josaphat' (an early Christian reworking of the life of Buddha). More... | $95.00 | Add to Cart | | 
| 1-59333-277-7 | The Passion of S. Perpetua
By J. A. Robinson
The story of the two women martyrs S. Perpetua and her slave S. Felicitas (d. 203 CE) have captivated generations of Christians. In this book, the late Cambridge scholar, J. A. Robinson, provides a study of the Greek and Latin texts of the Passio based on newly discovered manuscripts at the time, as well as the original Latin text of The Scillitan Martyrs, another text of Late 2nd Century North African martyrdom. More... | $95.00 | Add to Cart | | 
| 1-59333-275-0 | The Lord's Prayer in the Early Church
By Frederic Henry Chase
The late Cambridge scholar F. H. Chase gives an insightful study on the Lord's prayer in the early Christian Church. The study first discusses the early Church and the Synagogue, then goes through an analytical study of every phrase of the Lord's prayer. More... | $95.00 | Add to Cart | | 
| 978-1-61143-891-8 | Language and Textual History of the Syriac Bible
By Jan Joosten
The Syriac Bible is a fascinating field to which too little research has been devoted. In the present volume, Jan Joosten gathers a number of pilot studies, published in various journals and collective volumes, shedding light on the Syriac Old Testament, New Testament, and the relation between them. A number of studies advance the claim that the Old Syriac and Peshitta gospels preserve echoes of an Aramaic gospel tradition that gives independent access to the earliest, oral traditions on the life and teaching of Jesus. More... | $95.00 | Add to Cart | | 
| 978-1-61143-904-5 | Scribal Wit
By David Marcus
This book presents a detailed analysis of the Aramaic mnemonics, those short witty sentences written in Aramaic as memory aids, on the margins of one of the oldest extant biblical Hebrew manuscripts, the Leningrad Codex (1008 CE). The material is presented in clear, user-friendly charts. Each mnemonic is set alongside the Hebrew verses it represents. This book demonstrates the ingenuity of the Masoretes in their grand endeavor to preserve the text of the Hebrew Bible precisely in the form that it had reached them. More... | $95.00 | Add to Cart | | 
| 978-1-61143-867-3 | The East Syriac Psalm Headings
By HF Van Rooy
The Psalm Headings remain one of the most difficult and puzzling pieces of the Hebrew Bible. The present study looks at how these titles were treated in the East Syriac traditions. This volume gives a history of research and presents a new critical edition based on previously unpublished manuscripts. The Psalm headings in the East Syriac tradition reflect the exegesis of the Antiochene school, especially Diodore of Tarsus and Theodore of Mopsuestia. The headings contain a summary of Theodore's exegesis which had an important influence on the work of Syriac interpreters such as Ishodad of Merv and Bar Hebraeus. More... | $95.00 | Add to Cart | |
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